Driving up 395 on Saturday night there was a tremendous amount of smoke in the owens valley from about the turnoff to Kennedy meadows to past Olancha. Views from Cirque peak on Sunday were hazy in all directions.

The direction you are moving in is what matters, not the place you happen to be -Colin Fletcher

Thanks for clarifying that, George. When I checked the map I thought the same, but assumed the Times Delta was correct. Either way, let's hope some of the rain made it down there today and slowed it down.

The George fire, or more rightly the Freeman Creek Basin fire, is a real crying shame. As you travel up the Kern River from Kernville, you see what damage recent fires did to this beautiful area. By the time you got to the Freeman Creek basin, you finally entered a fire free oases. And now, some anus started a fire in this area near the George Bush tree, scorching another swath of forest, and you wonder is there is any Southern Sierra area that is untouched by fire? (Remember you can click on the pictures below.)

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